by Jason Mast | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured, Politics
RALEIGH, N.C. – The North Carolina NAACP is preparing to take legal action against the state Board of Elections for suppressing voter registration. Just months after the NAACP won a three-year legal battle against a North Carolina voter identification guide,...
by Jason Mast | Oct 26, 2016 | Environment, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON – The Syrian civil war and fall out from climate change have curbed long running international success at reducing global hunger, Rick Leach, CEO of the World Food Program, warned Wednesday. Since 2000, innovation and billions of dollars in aid have...
by Jason Mast | Oct 18, 2016 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – To avoid a shortfall in Social Security in less than 20 years, Americans are willing to retire later, pay more in payroll taxes and reduce benefits for the wealthy, according to a University of Maryland poll released Tuesday. Donald Trump has said he...
by Jason Mast | Oct 17, 2016 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Education Department announced Monday that the high school graduation rate reached an all-time high in 2015, crediting President Barack Obama’s $4 billion Race to the Top school reform program and nearly $6 billion pre-school initiative. But...
by Jason Mast | Oct 10, 2016 | Featured, Living, Politics
WASHINGTON – Dozens of Black Lives Matter activists briefly blocked traffic at a downtown Washington intersection during Monday evening’s rush hour to protest the September police killing of Terrence Sterling, a 31-year-old black man who was shot after his motorcycle...
by Jason Mast | Sep 27, 2016 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The woman who is closer to President Barack Obama than any other White House official has met with and praised the Koch brothers, the conservative billionaires who funded the Tea Party and publicly feuded with the president. Senior Advisor Valerie...
by Jason Mast | Sep 21, 2016 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — House Republicans accused the Obama administration of attempting to subvert the law and also congressional authority Wednesday during a hearing on a new law that replaced No Child Left Behind. Democrats charged that Republicans were trying to...
